Course Description:

This course is designed as a comprehensive and practical refining overview covering a range of complexities from simple topping units to extremely complex high-conversion refineries with aromatics production and recovery technologies

Course Goal:

To enhance the participants, knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to improve efficiency of distillates blending and to improve understanding of asphalt blending and residual fuel blending.

Course Objectives:

By the end of this course, participant will be able to:

1. Understand the purpose of blending & blending methods.
2. Be familiar with gasoline components and specifications.
3. Calculate gasoline quality.
4. Be familiar with different types of blending

Course Outline:

• Introduction (Purpose of Blending & Blending Methods).

• 1. Purpose of Blending Operations.
  2. Operational Requirements and Variables.
  3. Blending Methods (Batch Blending, In-Line Blending).

• Gasoline Components and Specifications.

• 1. Products Produced by Blending Operations & Grades of Gasoline.
  2. Gasoline Specifications (Volatility, Vapor / Liquid Ratio, Octane Number).

• Gasoline Quality.

• 1. Calculating Gasoline Quality.
  2. Additives & Reformulated Gasoline.

• Gasoline Blending.

• 1. In-line Blending System.
  2. Examples of In-Line Gasoline Blending.

• Distillates Blending.

• 1. Jet Fuel Components and specifications.
  2. Diesel Fuel Components and Specifications.
  3. Furnace Oil Components and Specifications.

• Asphalt Blending and Residual Fuel Blending.

• 1. Types of Asphalts (Straight Run Asphalts, Liquid Asphalts, Blown Asphalts).
  2. Asphalt Specifications.
  3. Residual Fuel Components and Specifications.

Who Can Benefit?

1. Chemicals engineers
2. Shift engineers
3. Forman